Is it time for a nap yet?

Here is what the backside looks like. OP notes this takes more fabric than paper piecing, but that excess fabric makes it already triple-layered. Besides not needing backing fabric, I don't think you'd need batting for this quilt at all. It's already thick and soft just from folding all that fabric into a hexagon.

Each hexagon begins as a 6" circle. camelscrafts does this by creating a paper template using a compass. According to the video, a 6" circle will create a hexagon that is 2.5 inches tall.

These hexagons are hand-sewn. Thread the needle.

With the fabric right side facing, find the center of the circle by folding it in half right sides together, then folding it in half again (wrong sides are facing). The top of the triangle shape is the center of the fabric circle.

Make a small stitch into the center of the fabric. The wrong side is still facing.

Unfold the circle. There will be a small stitch in the center.

Now the hexagon is created by folding the circle into itself: With wrong side facing, take the needle to one of the edges of the fabric (it doesn't matter which one). Pull the needle through and pull the thread tight. This will fold down the fabric and create an edge of the hexagon. Crease the fold with your finger.

This fold has two corners, one at the top and one at the bottom. Put the needle into one of the corners and pull the thread taut. This will create another fold.

Continue this going around the circle until all of it is folded down, creating the hexagon. camelscrafts notes that the last corner pulled in may be a little bit "wonky" (no precise point in the corner) if the corners were not done precisely. However, that corner is pulled into the back, so is not visible from the front.

The hexagon is now formed. Sew around the folds in the middle of the circle to hold the folds in place. Tie off and cut the thread.

I've also been working on developing habits that make me more functional when I'm out of meds and am burning out that I will probably write about at some point.

But it doesn’t matter cause the problem is at home. Carries mother is insanely abusive and manipulative towards her, keeping her unaware, childish and afraid. The teachers and principals are aware of this, but as of the 70s and Carrie almost being an adult they didn’t do anything. And that’s the tragedy.

If someone stepped in before, took her away from her mother, had her live a normal life without the Christian guilt, this wouldn’t have happened.

It’s her mother, after all, who tells her they will all laugh at her.

Even when they weren’t. Save for a few, the laughing Carrie hears is a hallucination. Everyone seems quite awestruck and sad. They were happy for her for a moment. Everything was okay for a moment.

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#2: "hi [professor], hope you're doing well! unfortunately, I'm [sick/stuck at work/dead] and won't be able to submit [assignment] by [due date]. could I please have an extension? if not, is there anything else I could do to make up this credit? thanks so much, [op]"

The FIRST SENTENCE is the thing you want the recipient to do. Do not make them guess.

I want to let you know about ... (This email is to inform someone of something not to ask them to do anything)

Could you please do ... (This is a request. You want them to do something).

I'm looking into x and wondering if you can help me (this is also a request but for information instead of an action).

People do not want to read an email and even if they do read it, most people are skimming and not interested. Tell them what you want first, then provide context or other information (when you need a thing is often key). If the email is informational, you can even add "you don't need to do anything, this is just to keep you informed!" People will appreciate not having to figure out what you want from them.

If you can't articulate what you want the recipient to do with the message, you are not ready to email them. I read too many emails where I have no idea what the person wants from me.

It’s much better to face these kinds of things with a sense of

these are images from a 1930s pamphlet that endorsed kudzu, entitled "stop gullies: save your farm"

Canebrakes built up incredibly rich, fertile soil and are amazing at preventing erosion. They form incredibly strong mats of rhizomes. And their roots are known to go 10 feet deep into the soil.

but yea after studying it a lot and observing plants in their environments, ive become less and less enthusiastic about "invasive plants hate die kill auughauhghgua" messages, because with most invasive plants the problem is like 10% the plant itself and 90% landscape level problems with how we manage land

i like plant. i feel joy when plant big and strong and survive and powerful. so when i see kudzu im like HEEELLLLL YEAHHHH

kudzu likes edge habitats and miserable, abused soil, and unfortunately in the southeastern USA we obliterated the soil with mining and bad agricultural practices, razed the forests almost completely, and fragmented the habitat into a million pieces by running roads and construction through everything. so basically we created loads of perfect kudzu habitat and now we're mad that kudzu Really Likes the habitat we made for her with our severe mismanagement, and we're mad that we have to keep interacting with the ecosystem to manage and control kudzu, instead of just exterminating everything that is Wrong so the ecosystem will be in a static, unchanging state of wildness forever and we can ignore it until we want to exploit it

Whereas kudzu IS actually invasive, however, if the area is left in the same condition that allowed the kudzu to take over, all that will grow back is invasive plants, either kudzu again or something worse. Habitats where almost everything is dead, at the edges of more intact plant communities, are exactly the habitats these invasive species usually love.

There's a park near me that is just about the worst, most out-of-control nightmare thicket of invasive plants I've ever seen. I learned recently that in this park, years ago, there was an intense multi-year project to eliminate invasive plants. But after the invasive plants were gone, different invasive plants grew back, and with a vengeance.

There are some specific scenarios where an introduced species is almost guaranteed to be very bad for the ecosystem, for example introducing terrestrial predators to islands.

And replacing native flora and fauna with non-native on purpose is obviously destructive, hence why I recommend people default to native species when landscaping

But nature is always changing and does not follow simple rules.

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